This is a pivotal moment for Philadelphia. More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the decisions local leaders make now—about attracting and retaining residents, bolstering the workforce, and ...

Over the past three decades, civil courts in Utah and across the country have seen their dockets overwhelmed by cases in which businesses sue consumers to collect a debt. As of 2019, debt collection ...

Philadelphia has enjoyed relatively strong job growth in recent years after a long period of losses, some resulting from the Great Recession. But an analysis of census data finds that the job gains ...

At some point this year, borrowers will likely be required to start repaying their federal student loans for the first time in three years, as the pandemic-related pause on payments, interest accrual, ...

Students from Santa Fe College and Bethune-Cookman University work to improve nesting habitat for the American oystercatcher—a bird once hunted to near-extinction—at the Guana Tolomato Matanzas ...

WASHINGTON—The highly contagious H5N1 virus, commonly known as avian or bird flu, has been confirmed in two seabirds—both of them Antarctic skuas—on the Antarctic Peninsula. And on February 23, ...

Significant strides in oral health policymaking in 2019 have helped set the stage for improved access to care for many Americans in 2020 and beyond, especially for those with limited incomes or who ...

On the last day of 2020, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—the agency responsible for protecting whales in U.S. waters—released a proposed regulation to protect right whales ...

On Sept. 10, The Pew Charitable Trusts filed a letter with the Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund in response to the department’s request for comment ...

The pandemic-related pause on federal student loan payments, which started in March 2020, has been critical in helping borrowers during a period of economic disruption. Whenever the pause ends, many ...

Suicide is a serious public health problem, claiming more than 48,000 lives in the U.S. in 2021. Research shows that nearly half of individuals who die by suicide interacted with the health care ...

People looking for information on legal questions often start their searches online, without a good handle on the terminology. Today’s machine learning tools can help put nonlegal phrasing into ...